“Government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.”~ Ronald Reagan, Jan. 20, 1981

The PCO Shell Game

Your legislators do NOT want

to hear from you.

Last Thursday, Grassroots Party Activists from different parts of the State took time off in the middle of the work week to journey to Olympia to take part in a 10AM hearing on HB 1860 which would radically alter laws concerning Political Parties in Washington. The faithful awoke before dawn. I was in a full carload. The Reagan Wing had alerted you here:

The hearing was cancelled, without notice, just before it was to begin.

NO ONE who wanted to testify was forewarned.

EVERYONE learned about it by showing up to find a roster announcing the cancellation in small type over the new agenda at the meeting room and being passed at the door by smiling, scrubbed and business-dressed representatives of the People’s republic on their way to a closed-door session.

This is business as usual in Olympia when the legislature wants to do something behind the public’s back. And the last thing they want, in this case, is grass roots Party Activists learning that the door is being closed on their open participation in the Nomination process by the very candidates they got elected. So we have the “public hearing” shell game. It’s become routine when they’re doing something they know is wildly unpopular, (or potentially so if it gets out). We saw it when they repealed the provisions of Tim Eyman’s I960 that limited their ability to raise taxes.

The PCO bill hearing was rescheduled after they were sure everyone had gone home:

Here’s how the shell game con (also known as “Three Card Monte”) works….

For the con to work the pea must be removed from the table. It’s a con, not a game of skill.

Here are the critical components of the con:

The con artist

The pea

The mark

The “bet”

Removing the pea from the table by palming it or some other misdirection

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Let’s be clear. The majority party are those who control everything in Olympia. So it’s not the ‘legislature’ it’s the Democrats.

The Republicans aren’t even notified of what’s coming up for a vote until minutes before they go to the floor. In fact often times they can find out more info by looking at the Dems twitter page than by any internal communication.

Again, it’s the Dems controlling this show, not the ‘legislature’ as a whole.

Both parties asked for this bill. The Secretary of State talked a shill into quietly sponsoring. The GOP simply needs plausible deniability, which they have thanks to their minority position.

Let’s talk about the elephant in the living room…

After all it is the GOP’s likely nominee coming for 2012, Congressman (Dr.) Ron Paul, which both parties fear in such a panic, that they are scrambling pell-mell to stop the grassroots influence! It is time the party became a permanent incestuous mafia number one, and privately selects who the electorate will see on their ballots after all.

It is the wave of the future, let’s face it. We can have people choosing between two or three on the final ballot, but we have no confidence the grassroots will choose who they really should for any nominations! After all, the people might not be republican enough for that responsibility. Few countries in the UN allow that today, so why should America?

Enough already.

We cannot have common people deciding the nomination, and re-making the party every two years. That is entirely inefficient and unproductive to a well-oiled feudal state. The ballot with only a single candidate, used in the 2008 congressional district caucuses, was a good example of efficiency. On that occasion the best choice of the party leaders was voted in by the delegates without any confusion, and without anyone loosing! It served Bulgaria well, and it can serve Washington well.

I say the sooner this bill passes the better. Who needs precincts? They are a figment of a bygone era, which no UN member nation, except America, seems to need anymore.